William posey wood



(No Model.) W. P.. WOOD.

ELEVATED RAILWAY.

Patented Jan. 24; 1888.

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wmLIAMrosEY woon, or CLAYTON, GEORGIA.

ELEVATED RAILWAY.

' SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 376,829, dated January 24, 1888.

Application filed May 2-1, 1887. Serial No.239,529. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern): 7

Be it known that I, WILLIAM PosEY WooD, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Clayton, inthe county of Rabun and State of Georgia,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Elevated Railways,

of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to elevated railways for carrying passengers and their baggage; and the invention consists in the peculiar and novel construction of supporting-frames for the rails ,or tracks, and also in the peculiar and novel 7 construction of the cars and their propelling mechanism, all as hereinafter described and In'order that my invention may be fully understood, I will proceed to describe it with "reference to the accompanying drawings, in

which I v Figure 1' is a perspective view of a portion of the track or way with a car mounted thereon. Fig. 2is a side elevation of the car.

In the said drawings, A A "designate the posts for supporting the rails. These posts are either set directlyinto the ground,as shown in Fig. 1, or they rest on suitable sills, as desired. The lower ends of these posts are in either case connected by'oblique braces a, and carry each a horizontal beam, B, which supports the tracks B, and which is secured midway of its length to theupper end of the post, said beams being sustained and strengthened by upper oblique braces, a, as shown.

0 designates the upper portion of the car, which may be either of. oblong rectangular form, as shown, or of any other suitable form.

D designates the compartment for receiving one or more persons, and which is suspended beneath the upper portion, 0, by a pendent frame, D. The upper and lower portions, 0

D, of the car are supported upon the rail B by wheels E, two being shown, and these belts F J, as set forth. s I a In testimony whereof I affir; my signature in wheels are connected by a belt or band, F, so as to movein unison. An operating-wheel,

G, is su'spendedfrom beneath the upper portion,O, of the car by means of a pendent fran1e,

H, in the lower end of which theaxle h, for I operating the wheel, is journaled, and cranks h are formed upon or attached to the opposite ends of the axle h, and are within-convenient reach of the operator in the'compartment O."

A step, I, extends downwardly from the com partment O, and servesv to facilitatet-he entrance of passengers into the same. Upon. the axle h of the op'eratingwhe'el H is placed a hub-pulleyflz from which a band, J, extends to a hub-pulley, e, onthe axle of oneot the carrying-wheels E. It will thus be seen that the car may be run ineither direction, and that simply duplicating the track at each end of the upper cross-beam, B, and'also the number of wheels for the car, ,does notinvolve any able arrangements of switches are to be provided for the carrying-rails of the cars.

Having thus described my'invention, whatI claim as new, and desire :to' secure by Letters Patent, is y The carriage consisting of the upper portion,

G, mounted upon the carrying-wheels, E and r provided with the pendent frames D H, in combination with the compartment D, with its step I sustained by the frame, the operating-wheel G, mounted in the lower end of the frame H, and having the cranks h,

presence of two witnesses.

, WILLIAM POSEY WOOD.

Witnesses: y

W. V. GARRETT, I I PETER D. COFFEE. V

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